Chapter 41 Give the Koreans a chance to show off

Chapter 41: Give the Koreans a kick in the ass

June 2013, 6, Turk Telekom Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey.

At 6 pm local time, the first match of the 2013 World Youth Championship in Turkey was between the French U20 team, the favorite to win the tournament, and the Ghana U20 team. After 90 minutes of fierce battle, the French team defeated Ghana 3:1. Umtiti and Sarr played the entire game as the starting central defenders. Cordobia, Sanogo and Bachback scored for France, while Boakye pulled a goal back for Ghana at the last moment of the game.

In another game that started at the same time, the South Korean team in Group B defeated Cuba 2:1 at the Kadir Stadium in Kayseri.

An hour after the end of these two games, the other two games of Groups A and B also started in the two cities at the same time. Among them, Portugal U20 faced the African Eagle Nigeria at the Kadir Stadium.

This is the second meeting between the two teams after half a month.Previously in the Toulon Cup, Portugal defeated its opponent 2:1.

This time the two teams met again, Portugal took a two-goal lead in the first half. Right winger Bruma, known as the new Ronaldo, opened the scoring for Portugal in the 30th minute. Four minutes later, Aladeji expanded the score for Portugal. .

The two-goal lead made Portugal's U20 youth a little distracted. At the beginning of the second half, Portugal, who was a little distracted, was pulled back by Nigeria in the 57th minute.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Portugal took the lead in making substitutions, replacing Pereira with forward Caballero, and replaced the goal hero Aladegui with Esgao.

Bruno couldn't understand the head coach's substitution, and it also confused the young people in Portugal. These two substitutions did not change Portugal's situation on the court.

In the 67th minute, Nigeria scored another victory. Player No. 10 scored twice to help Nigeria even the score to 2:2!

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Taking a two-goal lead only to be equalized by their opponents with two consecutive goals, the young people in Portugal were a little dumbfounded.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Bruno reflected the value of his offensive core.

In the 69th minute, his through ball tore through Nigeria's defense and accurately found Bruma on the front line. Portugal's new Cristiano Ronaldo faced a God-given opportunity and did not hesitate. He easily sent the ball into Nigeria's goal. While scoring twice, he also helped Portugal surpass the score again.

Subsequently, Nigeria mobilized its troops to strengthen its offense and replaced two offensive players in a row in order to score more goals.

The Portuguese side is playing steadily. Ramos replaced Agostino Cha, who was born in the La Masia youth training camp and currently plays for the Barcelona B team in the Spanish second division, to strengthen midfield control.

The score finally stayed at 2:3, and Portugal drew the away team in this game.

In this game, Portugal's Bruma and Nigeria's No. 10 Agugan shined brightly and both scored twice, but in the end the best of the match went to Bruno, who was wearing Portugal's No. 10 jersey.

Since he has secured his position as the core of the team, Bruno's jersey in the team has also been changed from No. 21 during the Toulon Cup to the current No. 10.

Originally, Bruno preferred the No. 8 jersey, but Portugal's No. 8 is captain Joao Mario. Bruno has a good relationship with him, so naturally he will not compete with others.

In the game, although Bruno only had 1 assist, he was the instigator of Portugal's two goals in the first half.

And when Portugal was equalized and the team was in chaos, it was he who stood up and assisted the team to exceed the score. He was the real core and anchor of the team.

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In the first round of the group stage, Portugal and South Korea both defeated their opponents and scored 3 points, with a goal difference of one. However, Portugal still occupied the first place in the group by virtue of its advantage of scoring more goals.

This makes the matchup between Portugal and South Korea in the second round of the group stage very critical.Whoever can beat the opponent will basically lock in the first place in the group.

Originally, Bruno thought that the Portuguese players' fighting spirit would soar when they faced the Koreans. After all, in the World Cup in Korea and Japan 11 years ago, Portugal was eliminated from the group stage by South Korea, which was a shame. This experience will definitely be remembered by the Portuguese, and they will come back with revenge in the game.

<divclass="contentadv">However, through observations over the past few days, Bruno found that he was thinking too much.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Bruno understood. After all, eleven years ago, most of the members of this Portugal U20 team were eight or nine-year-old kids and had little memory of that scene.

Of course, Bruno doesn't have to worry about the fighting spirit of his teammates, because the two sides are now direct competitors.In order to compete for the first place in the group, both sides will definitely not show mercy.

Although Nigeria had defeated Cuba 3:0 in the match an hour before the start of the match between Portugal and South Korea and temporarily topped the standings, Nigeria, which lost in the first round of the group stage, would not have lost by two goals. The team's biggest competitor.

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No matter what his teammates were thinking, Bruno held his breath and vowed to make the Koreans look good in the game.

There are too many things in his memory that make Bruno dislike Korea, a clown who likes to jump up and down, and the former national team couldn't be strong in the game. This makes Bruno, as a fan, feel endlessly aggrieved.

Now that he had the opportunity to vent, he naturally wouldn't let it go.

As Portugal's organization and offensive core, Bruno holds the control valve of Portugal's offense. Now that he is ready to take care of South Korea, Bruno's plan is to give the Koreans a head start from the beginning of the game.

Therefore, from the beginning of the game, Bruno led Portugal U20 and raised the pace of the game to the fastest pace.

Crazy!

This was the first impression Portugal gave everyone after the game started.

They bombarded the Korean team's goal indiscriminately.

The South Korean team, which was somewhat ill-prepared to face this kind of attack, was a little embarrassed. Under the ebb and flow of one another, Portugal's offensive became even more crazy.

Portugal's opening attack bore fruit in the third minute of the game.

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Bruno dribbled the ball from the midfield and headed towards the South Korean team's penalty area. Faced with two Korean teammates closing the defense, Bruno used an emergency stop to change direction, inducing the two Korean players to "kill each other". Then before the third Korean player came to cover the defense, Bruno made a 45-degree cross. The ball was sent into the Korean team's penalty area.

In the penalty area, Portuguese center Aladegui grabbed the spot and flicked the football with the outside instep of his right foot!

This is a shot without any warning that was completely uncharged by the normal swing of the leg while running!

The football was bounced to the far corner of the goal by the outside instep of Aladeji's right foot!

And because the shot was so sudden, South Korean goalkeeper Lee Chang-geun didn't even have time to fall to the ground to save it. His body only dropped halfway, and the football slipped past his armpit and crotch. In the blink of an eye, he rushed towards the goalkeeper. After scoring the goal, he dived into the net and never moved again!

Seeing Aladeji send the ball into the South Korean team's goal, Bruno was finally relieved.

Like Portugal's aggressive opening tactics, it would be bad if they can't score goals for a long time.

The so-called fierce operation is to lay down the opponent before he can react.

This is the same as some assholes who are good at hitting home runs quickly when the little girl is dizzy.